Jim Webb—The bestselling author and now the celebrated, outspoken U.S. Senator from Virginia—presents a clear-eyed, hard-hitting plan of attack for putting government to work for the people, rather than special interests, and for restoring the country's standing around the world.
Watch Jim Webb on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Charlie Rose on PBS June 9, 2008. Check your local listings for timings..
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
A no-holds-barred memoir from the primary architect of hip hop and one of the culture's most revered music icons —both the tale of his life and legacy and a testament to dogged determination.
Carolyn Jessop, author of the New York Times bestseller Escape, has become the most sought-after interview in America due to the authorities' having placed more than 400 FLDS children in protective custody in Texas. Carolyn's ex-husband Merril Jessop is the leader of the FLDS compound in Texas from which the children have been removed; her eldest daughter remains in another FLDS compound in Texas.
Escape is the dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. Read an excerpt here.
A Freewheelin' Time
A Freewheelin' Time is Suze Rotolo's firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster.
Now in Paperback! With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music.
Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess," who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy?
A pampered Long Island princess hits the road in a converted bus with her wilderness-loving husband, travels the country for one year, and brings it all hilariously to life in this offbeat and romantic memoir.
In The Poet of Baghdad, the life story of one of Iraq's most revered poets, Nabeel Yasin, is framed against the turbulent crises in his homeland that took place before, during, and after the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein.
A captivating oral portrait of America's favorite borough, in the words of those who know Brooklyn best—Mel Brooks, Spike Lee, Arthur Miller, Joan Rivers, Norman Mailer, Cousin Brucie, Maria Bartiromo, Pete Hamill, and many other current and former inhabitants.
If you're not using your hands to their fullest potential during sex, you are depriving your partner of untold bliss. It's time to learn how to use your mitts in ways that will have your partner moaning for more.
Joe DiMaggio...Ted Williams...Joe Louis...Billy Conn...WhirlawayAgainst the backdrop of a war that threatened to consume the world, these athletes transformed 1941 into one of the most thrilling years in sports history.
